“Writing is the most public performance of your intelligence.” -Jim Burke IRA 2014
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“Writing is the most public performance of your
intelligence.”-Jim Burke
IRA 2014
“Let kids discover the secrets of the universe through the books
they read.”-Dav Pilkey
IRA 2014
“You can’t learn how to write just by filling out graphic organizers.”
-Carol Jago
IRA 2014
“My barometer is that if I don’t want to do it – I don’t want the
kids to do it.”-Laura Robb
IRA 2014
“We want a nation of readers, not a nation of answerers.”
-Kylene Beers
IRA 2014
“When was the last time at a junior high school or high school
that the kids actually watched the teacher struggle?”
-Kelly Gallagher
IRA 2014
“If you’re a kid who believes that your cultural capital doesn’t
matter in school – you don’t have anything to hang your hat on.”
-P. David Pearson
IRA 2014
“When you start your teaching with images – everybody plays.”
-Smokey Daniels
IRA 2014
“We have to prepare our students to be “citizen ready” as well as just college and career ready.”
-Steve Zemelman
IRA 2014
“Grandma’s bookshelf doesn’t have lexile numbers.”
-Donalyn Miller
IRA 2014
“Aren’t you worried about losing books? No, I’m worried about
losing children.”-Richard Allington
IRA 2014
“Writing is the largest orchestra that the brain has to construct.”
-Jim Burke
IRA 2014
“There’s a reading revolution happening all around us – we just
need to get out of the way.”-Dav Pilkey
IRA 2014
“Most great writing is not informative, narrative, or
argumentative – most great writing has all three.”
-Carol Jago
IRA 2014
“We have an opportunity to give readers not only the books they want, but the books they need.”
-Ruta Sepetys
IRA 2014
“Reading is like breathing – writing is like breathing out.”
-Pam Allyn
IRA 2014
“Asking kids to hold their prior knowledge at bay is like asking dogs not to bark and leaves not to fall.”
-P. David Pearson
IRA 2014
“When we teach kids to read like writers we teach them to write
like writers.”-Kelly Gallagher
IRA 2014
“If we want them to reread, it’s on us to make it interesting. It’s our responsibility to make them want to read something again.”
-Smokey Daniels
IRA 2014
“I really believe that putting a book in the hands of a kid is a
sacred act.”-Jeff Kinney
IRA 2014
“Educators have the ability to take something that is a good
idea and make it stupid real fast.”-Carol Jago
IRA 2014
“Most kids read well enough to do well in college, but don’t read
enough to do well in college.”-Richard Allington
IRA 2014
“Never send a test out to do a curriculum’s job.”-P. David Pearson
IRA 2014
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